Don's Tuesday Column

THE WAY I SEE IT   by Don Polson  Red Bluff Daily News   10/27/2015

     Hillary’s mind-numbed sycophants

The guest speaker for the Tea Party Patriots tonight will be Bill Goodwin, Chief Administrator for Tehama County, at the Westside Grange, 6 PM.

Hillary Clinton’s testimony at the Benghazi hearing last Thursday provided, for the observant analyst, a veritable cornucopia of misdirection, insufficient answers and disingenuous self-serving irrelevancies; then you had statements that, but for the lawyerly weaving of fact with fiction, would have been perjury-level lying. I relied on network coverage, post-testimony reports and opinion pieces from several sources.

Here are a few insightful articles (online readers can simply copy the titles and paste them into search boxes): “What Hillary Knew,” “The Clinton’s Greatest Political Gift: Persuading Millions of Americans to Defend the Indefensible,” “The Benghazi Hearings Confirm Yet Again What a Brazen Liar Hillary Is,” and “Hillary’s Breathtaking Mendacity,” all at NationalReview.com; “Some Rout” and others at Powerlineblog.com; “No, Hillary Clinton Did Not ‘Triumph’ at the Benghazi Hearing,” by Debra Heine, and “Hillary Clinton’s public vs. private Benghazi facts,” by Sharyl Attkisson.

Navy SEAL Glen Doherty lost his life fighting for his life, his fellow SEALs lives, and the lives of civilian State Department employees abandoned by the phony Obama/Clinton “low profile/al Qaeda-on-the-run” narrative. While it’s not language I would use, the father of Glen had harsh words for Hillary. “She’s a scumbag, in my opinion,” said Ben Doherty in an interview with NECN. “Well, I think that she pulled all the troops out of the embassy, he had no backup. He burnt alive…She said it’s no big deal, it’s a big deal to me, he’s my son and I loved him.”

Equally as astonishing was the shamelessly glowing reportorial treatment given by the broadcast news sources. I shared my expectation with a friend that there would be thinly veiled Hillary-centric coverage with a generous dose of “Republicans looking mean while discovering nothing new.” Sure enough, NBC Nightly News showed a montage of Hillary’s expressions of boredom, disdain, raised-eyebrow disbelief, and eye-rolling or dagger-shooting, which I’m sure were well rehearsed for just that effect. Committee Democrats feigned outrage to create a“food fight” for the cameras.

The media groupthink mantra was “Nothing new here—move along—these are not the falsehoods you are looking for.” The subtle message to viewers was, “What a waste of money and time for the soon-to-be-crowned empress and champion of Obama-ism/Clinton-ism and progressivism.” The AP’s Daily News article, “Facing inquiry, Clinton seeks to close book on Benghazi,” said as much: “Hillary Clinton strove to close the book on the worst episode of her tenure…battling Republican questions…but revealing little new about the 2012 attacks in Benghazi.”

Folks, if President Bush and Condoleezza Rice had been found saying the complete opposite in private from what they said in public, there would have been massive cries of outrage and indignation from the media/Democrat complex, hounding their spokespersons mercilessly. Reporters even twisted factual and truthful statements. Well, Hillary's email bombshell exposed such duplicity on the cause of the Benghazi attacks. For public consumption, from the mouths of Hillary, Susan Rice and Obama, to the grieving families, on Sunday talk shows and at the United Nations: endlessly, nauseatingly repeated—and made-up—lies about an anti-Islam video.

To Hillary’s daughter, Libya’s president and the Egyptian prime minister, she dismissed the video explanation completely: “We know the attack had nothing to do with the film. It was a planned attack, not a protest…the group that claimed responsibility for this was affiliated with al-Qaeda.” The larger, and possibly more outrageous, point is that Obama was weeks away from a reelection; the voters were assured that “al Qaeda was on the run” in a shining Libyan example of diplomatic and military “leading from behind.”

Nothing new from the hearing? It used to be a “News Flash!” and “Hold the presses!” moment when the highest officials in the land were caught deceiving the public—I guess that’s only if they have an “R” next to their names. Then, put the now-revealed 600 requests for greater security at the Benghazi mission together with actual attacks and prior breaches of its perimeter.

It all encompassed an increasingly violent period during which other nations abandoned their facilities. What you have is an abominable disregard for the lives and security of Americans, serving their nation on foreign soil, for the crass purpose of maintaining a disreputable illusion long enough to get past the 2012 election. And Hillary Clinton assumes the mind-numbed allegiance of her party—and the in-kind political contributions and interference by news media lackeys and sycophants—to keep the low-information voters hating Republicans long enough to get past the 2016 election.

From David French: “To read the coverage of yesterday’s Benghazi hearing was to understand that Americans can inhabit entirely separate political planets. For conservatives, the two main takeaways from the hearing were scandalous indeed…While yesterday’s hearing didn’t change the essential storyline of Benghazi, it did make the details worse. But don’t tell the inhabitants of that other planet, Planet Liberal…In plain English: The hearing was a ‘bust’ because Hillary rationalized away her abject failures and multiple lies with poise and panache.”